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  No one likes to see those who are happier than himself. -- Nicolas Chamfo...
• The most wasted day is one in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfo
• Especially for teenagers!: A little philosophy tends to despise learning
  much philosophy leads men to esteem it....
• Men of reason have endured; men of passion have lived.
  -- Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) -- Maximes et Pensees (1796)...
• Life is a desease from which sleep gives us relife every sixteen hours.
  Sleep is a palliative, death is a remedy....
• People who will not admit they've been wrong love themselves more than they love the truth.
• Some people pray for more than they are willing to work for.
• Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always loved, now love the more.
  -- Thomas Parnell (1679-1717) -- Translation of the Pervigilium Veneri...
• There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer. (Maxim 71)